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    Smells and politics of Utopia
    Diogenes 1-22. forthcoming.
    Utopia is nominally a ‘nowhere’ that is also, as Thomas More tells us, a ‘good’ place. Although there are competing cognate notions, the Greek description looms large in most accounts of utopia. The details of this ideal are so specified that utopic literature consists in a catalogue (and critique) of specifications. This essay draws attention to the fragrance attributed to Lucian’s ‘Isles of the Blest’ together with Ivan Illich’s attention to ‘atmosphere’ and to the aura and the nose along with…Read more
  • From Heidegger's Da-Sein to the “Prince of the World”
    In Ingo Farin & Jeff Malpas (eds.), Heidegger and the human, State University of New York Press. pp. 47-81. 2022.
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    Material hermeneutics and Heelan’s philosophy of technoscience
    AI and Society 38 (6): 2177-2188. 2023.
    This essay raises the question of material hermeneutics in Heelan’s philosophy of techno-science. For Heelan, a continental philosophy of technoscience, referring to Husserl and Heidegger and especially to Merleau-Ponty, features hermeneutic contexts of mathematics and measurement as well as laboratory observation, including what the later Heelan spoke of as “portable laboratories,” for the sake of objectivity and “meaning making.” For Paul Feyerabend, this material practice corresponded to the …Read more
  •  5
    Gadamer, Beauty, and Musical Improvisation
    In Sam McAuliffe (ed.), Gadamer, Music, and Philosophical Hermeneutics, Springer Verlag. pp. 203-240. 2023.
    Gadamer’s On the Relevance of the Beautiful makes telling reference to musical improvisation and the importance of musical listening in addition to foregrounding the need for justification (here including reference to musicological readings of Plato). Situating this discussion via Goethe and Plato along with Adorno’s late 1950s lectures on Aesthetics together with a discussion of Nietzsche and antiquity, what is at stake is attunement and a tension which invites a discussion of Anne Carson on th…Read more
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    This essay takes its point of departure from a post-Nietzschean reading of Kant and the limits of logic and critique. The focus is on science, particularly chemistry and alchemy via mercurial cinnabar (HgS), to this day the primary source of elemental mercury. Seeking to raise the question of science as Nietzsche names it along with the question of truth, this essay undertakes to raise the question of historiography in science, using the illustration of alchemy.
  • Nietzsche's Epistemological Writings (edited book)
    with Richard Cohen
    Kluwer Academic. 1999.
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    Beginning with Jacob Taubes and Günther Anders on eschatology, apocalypse and political theology, including Saint Paul and Frankfurt School critical theory along with bombs and power plants (energy/climate), this essay parallels a re-reading of Tracy B. Strong’s political reading of Nietzsche on Jesus (and love) with Taubes, Anders and Carl Schmitt on politics (and technology). Highlighted throughout is the politically charged (and inherently esoteric) context of Gnosticism for philosophy and th…Read more
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    Gadamer, la belleza y la improvisación musical
    Boletín de Estética (63): 7-78. 2023.
    Resumen: En La actualidad de lo bello, Gadamer hace una referencia reveladora a la improvisación musical y a la importancia de la escucha musical, además de poner en primer plano la necesidad de justificación del arte. Situando este debate a través de Goethe y Platón, junto con las Lecciones de Estética de Adorno de finales de la década de 1950 y una discusión sobre Nietzsche y la Antigüedad, es posible establecer que lo que está en juego es la afinación, así como una tensión que invita a un deb…Read more
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    Ageing, Aura, and Vanitas in Art: Greek Laughter and Death
    Espes. The Slovak Journal of Aesthetics 12 (2): 56-86. 2023.
    Beginning with the representation of age in extremis in the nature morte or still life, a depiction of aged artifacts and representations of vanitas, artistic representations particularly in painting associate woman and death. Looking at artistic allegories for age and ageing, raising the question of aura for Walter Benjamin along with Ivan Illich and David Hume, this essay reflects on Heidegger on history together with reflections on the ‘death of art’ as well as Arakawa and Gins and Bazon Broc…Read more
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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    In Niall Keane & Chris Lawn (eds.), A Companion to Hermeneutics, Wiley. 2015.
    Nietzsche's importance for the development of twentieth‐century hermeneutics can be traced through Martin Heidegger, Hans‐Georg Gadamer, and Paul Ricoeur's nomination of Nietzsche, alongside Marx and Freud, as a “master of suspicion”, precisely posed in the context of Nietzsche's unmasking of the text and its truths. For Nietzsche himself, hermeneutics frames his formation as a classical philologist, an archetypically hermeneutic discipline Nietzsche shared with Gadamer. Declaring that “nature's…Read more
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    Hermeneutic Philosophy of Science
    In Niall Keane & Chris Lawn (eds.), A Companion to Hermeneutics, Wiley. 2015.
    Martin Heidegger first adverted to the hermeneutic phenomenological orientation to nature and scientific observation in the scientist's laboratory practice in addition to the scientist's own reflective theoretical expressions. From the start, hermeneutic philosophy of science has focused not only on historical and current scientific texts, including scientific laboratory reports and communications, professional articles, and research protocols, but, even beginning with Heidegger, it has also att…Read more
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    Nietzsche's “Gay” Science
    In Keith Ansell Pearson (ed.), A Companion to Nietzsche, Blackwell. 2006.
    This chapter contains sections titled: Science and Leidenschaft The Music of the Gay Science and the Meaning of Wissenschaft Gay Science: Passion, Vocation, Music.
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    Between Hölderlin and Heidegger: Nietzsche's Transfiguration of Philosophy
    In Mazzino Montinari, Wolfgang Müller-Lauter, Heinz Wenzel, Günter Abel & Werner Stegmaier (eds.), 2000, De Gruyter. pp. 267-301. 2000.
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    On Nietzsche's Concinnity: An Analysis of Style
    In Mazzino Montinari, Wolfgang Müller-Lauter, Heinz Wenzel, Günter Abel & Werner Stegmaier (eds.), 1990, De Gruyter. pp. 59-80. 1989.
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    Nietzsche (as) educator
    Educational Philosophy and Theory 51 (9): 871-885. 2019.
    There has been no shortage of readers who take Nietzsche as educator (cf., for a by no means exhaustive list: Allen, 2017; Aviram, 1991; Bell, 2007; Cooper 1983; Fairfield, 2017; Fitzsimons, 2007;...
  • N'y aurait-il de pas de différence notable entre les philosophies analytique et continentale? La première serait la bonne philosophie, la seconde une philosophie non rigoureuse, de comptoir. Ce jugement est l'apanage des philosophes analytiques, qui considèrent leurs confères de formation continentale, à l'instar de Jacques Derrida, comme des " astrologues ", des non-philosophes. L'auteur approfondit ici le débat, en identifiant de façon rigoureuse les différences importantes qui divisent les de…Read more
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    Quelle est la politique de Heidegger? Y a-t-il une éthique chez Heidegger? En développant ces thèmes, ce livre considère un politique brisé, conséquent à l'expérience d'une guerre sans précédent comme il le souligne dans sa "Lettre sur l'humanisme" et surtout dans les Cahiers Noirs. Ces considérations soulèvent en conséquence la question de Heidegger et "ses" juifs.
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    Das vorliegende Buch bietet hermeneutische und phänomenologische Reflexionen über das Kunstwerk aus der Sicht sowohl des Künstlers - als Schaffendem - als auch des Publikums. Die Materialität des Kunstwerks, lebensgrosse antike griechische Bronzen, Naturgeschichte und Archäologie sowie die Frage nach Nietzsches Artistenmetaphysik werden erörtert. In einem Kernkapitel wird eine neue Lesart von Nietzsches Zarathustra und seiner plastischen Begriff des Erhabenen vorgestellt. Auf Basis von Ele…Read more
  • From Heidegger's Da-Sein to the "prince of the world"
    In Ingo Farin & Jeff Malpas (eds.), Heidegger and the human, State University of New York Press. 2022.
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    Günther Anders' philosophy of technology: from phenomenology to critical theory
    Bloomsbury Academic, Bloomsbury Publishing Plc. 2021.
    Gunter Anders' Philosophy of Technology is the first comprehensive exploration of the ground-breaking work of German thinker Gunter Anders. Anders' philosophy has become increasingly prescient in our digitised, technological age as his work predicts the prevalence of social media, ubiquitous surveillance and the turn to big data. Anders' ouevre also explored the technologies of nuclear power and the biotech concerns for the human and transhuman condition which have become so central to current t…Read more
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    Twitter and the aphoristic (re)turn in thought, knowledge and education
    with Steve Fuller, David Gorman, Val Dusek, Markus Pantsar, Thomas Basbøll, and Sharon Rider
    Educational Philosophy and Theory 55 (13): 1436-1449. 2023.
    David GormanNorthern Illinois UniversityThe official topic of Steve Fuller’s editorial is aphorisms, but I think that it is early days in his thinking about this interesting genre. He mentions them...
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    In what follows I raise the question of Ariadne and Dionysus for Nietzsche, including the relative size of Ariadne’s ears, as Dionysus observes at the close of “Ariadne’s Lament” [Klage der Ariadne]. Nietzsche’s references to ears invoke not only Nietzsche’s “selective” concern with having the right ears but also the question of myth and genealogical context. Reading through myth is key not only in terms of the textual, lyric tradition but also painting and sculpture, including sarcophagi in ant…Read more
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    L’atmosphère, le parfum et la politique de l’utopie : Lucien, Nietzsche, et Illich
    with Nicole G. Albert
    Diogène 274 (1): 124-146. 2022.
    L’utopie est nominalement un nulle part qui est aussi, comme nous le dit Thomas More, un “bon” endroit. Bien qu’il existe des notions concurrentes, la description grecque occupe une place importante dans la plupart des récits d’utopie. Les détails de cet idéal sont si précis que la littérature utopique consiste en un catalogue (et une critique) de ces caractéristiques. Cet essai attire l’attention sur le parfum attribué aux « Îles des bienheureux » de Lucien, ainsi que sur la description qu’en f…Read more
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    Whereto the ‘New’ Nietzsche?
    New Nietzsche Studies 11 (1): 67-76. 2019.
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    Philosophy of Science
    In Constantin V. Boundas (ed.), The Edinburgh Companion to Twentieth-Century Philosophies, Edinburgh University Press. pp. 545-558. 2007.
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    Günther Anders’s Epitaph for Aikichi Kuboyama
    Journal of Continental Philosophy 2 (1): 141-157. 2021.
    Günther Anders’s poem Du kleiner Fischerman is read here as a text contribution to the irruption that is violence and its enduring (omnipresent) aftermath. The essay includes a discussion of transmedial expression, including dramatization, or television and social media, text and subtext, as well as the inspiration of Anders’s poem as a work of art continuing in our times: the ongoing exclusion(s) of certain names and certain thinkers as of certain musical modes, including electronic musical wor…Read more
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    Nietzsches Ursprung der Tragödie als Musik
    In Renate Reschke & Volker Gerhardt (eds.), Friedrich Nietzsche – Zwischen Musik, Philosophie Und Ressentiment, Akademie Verlag. pp. 221-238. 2006.